Abstract

— In the Hegel’s philosophy the conflict has not only a social dimension, its sense cannot be reduced to the dialectic of the master and the servant. In fact the conflict works at two levels, the one of the self-consciousness and the one of the history : the tragic conflict between the gods and the mankind, and then between the man and the fate in the Greek tragedy ; the conflict for the recognition as a fight to the life, to the death ; the juridical conflict, and the disappearance of all conflicts in the State which is really political. But the conflict reappears at the historical level inso far as the State remains a State and the war between the States follows from the interplay of passions and violence. In the Hegel’s philosophy the proper site of the conflict is not the political organization, but rather what is infra-political and historical. In Hegel all is conflict except the Idea of the State.